Mystical Journey

“Why can’t you stay on the same page as me?” Zhi Jinqin’s tone calmed down. “Perhaps there are a few screws loose in your head. Let me do a quick check for you again…”

Yuria mustered his very last strength as he raised his head, looking at the great number of hands coming down from the sky.

“Alternating my memories again?” He smiled wryly as he pressed his hand onto his forehead. “I do not wish to live an ignorant life anymore.”

“Do you have a choice?”

Zhi Jinqin smirked as she swiftly grabbed his hand which was raised up. Without a moment’s delay, the defenseless Yuria was lifted up into the air.

The sunlight pierced through the clouds and shone between them. The golden sunlight was extremely pure as Zhi Jinqin’s insanity and ugliness was clear as day under the sunlight.

She saw her own reflection from her brother’s calm eyes.

She suspended her finger gently in front of Yuria’s forehead. The tip of her finger gradually became thin as it started rotating. Then similar to a blooming flower, it opened up and revealed a tiny mouth with a substantial amount of thin grey brownish teeth.

“Brother, you’re always so disobedient.” Zhi Jinqin put on a gentle smile on her face once more as the tip of her finger drilled into Yuria’s forehead.

Boom!!

A blinding light dazzled.

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“That is… the light from an explosion! Why is it so intense!??” Vulture No.1, who was in the rocky boat, raised his head as he looked at the silver light bursting out in the sky.

“No… That’s not a light…” Red Nation’s prince was lying just beside him as both of them had miraculously survived. However, they were completely immobile and could only move their eyes.

“It’s a saber…!”

“A saber?”

Slash!!

In that instant, the silver afterimage of a saber that spanned a few kilometers struck down to the ground from the sky.

It landed silently on White Crab Island.

The whole island slowly opened up from the center without displaying any other movements. It had been sliced into two!

Then, an enormous amount of seawater started gushing into the empty space between the island that had just been split into half.

“It’s Garen!!”

Vulture No. 1 quickly looked over to see where the trace of the saber originated. There, he saw a shadow of a tall and muscular man.

He was levitating in the middle of the air as he looked down at Zhi Jinqin and Yuria below him. He had a three-meter-long thin silver saber in his hand and was in a black, tight body suit. The suit did not flutter at all as if it was not affected by the surrounding air current.

“He has finally arrived…” Vulture No.1 looked at Garen, who was in the sky, with a complicated feeling as this level of battle had far surpassed their expectation from the very beginning.

“There’s still ten minutes left before the final bombing…”

“When the time comes, everything here will be turned into ash.” The Red Nation’s Prince continued his sentence. “Our respondents have yet to even appear before us. It seems like we have been abandoned.”

“That’s right…” Vulture No.1 sighed. “We’ve served the nation with everything we have for most of our lives and we’re going to die in this place. This is totally unexpected.”

“This is what politics is all about. Aren’t we used to this?” Prince smirked.

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“You’re a disgrace, Yuria. How could you be beaten up by your own sister this badly.” Garen did not know what to say as he looked at Yuria who had barely escaped from her grasp. “It’s really a disgrace to have you as my disciple.”

“Brother Saber… I didn’t wish for this result as well…” Yuria forced a smile on his face. He seemed to be still in the mood to crack a joke. “You have no idea how powerful Xiaojie is.”

“I really have no idea how powerful she really is…” Garen gently puts Yuria down and out of the battlefield far away via the air current. “Be careful. It’s been a while since I go all out so don’t blame me if you were accidentally killed.”

“Hey!” Yuria still had something to say but was already sent far away.

Garen turned around and looked at Zhi Jinqin. All of her tentacles which were cut off by Garen’s strike just a while ago were already growing back. The Ring of Energy Field behind her had become even clearer as many more of them had started rotating, and a pair of eyes glowing faintly in red stared right at him.

“Do you have any last words before you die?” Garen said casually.

“Last words? Hehehe… It’s supposed to be me saying that… Master Garen…”

Shush!!

A huge amount of tentacles rushed towards Garen from all directions, covering all the lights around him in an instant. It was as if the day had instantly turned into night.

As the tentacles reached a few meters away from Garen, they started exploding, turning into countless yellow-green blisters packed with a voluminous amount of yellow and viscous fluid that lunged directly towards Garen.

“Let’s see how you can dodge them!!” Zhi Jinqin relinquished a huge amount of her tentacles in an instant as she retreated swiftly while she stared at Garen and scoffed.

The area was already surrounded by a pile of grey-brown tentacle meatballs.

Pew!!

A blinding silver light flashed across at high speed where she was earlier at, flying far away into the sea. No one knew how far it had gone as it disappeared in the horizon.

Pew pew pew pew pew!!

In an instant, the meatballs collapsed as a black human silhouette rushed out from it, slicing all of the tentacles easily as if they were tofu. The afterimages of the saber beside him had turned into a storm of sharp sabers as not a single drop of viscous liquid had stained his shirt.

Countless of the saber’s afterimages converged into one point and combined into one saber. With Garen as the wielder, nothing could stop its advancement as the blade moved.

Zhi Jinqin could not react in time as she did not expect Garen to break out this quick. The saber cut across her waist in a single strike and was instantly retracted back to Garen’s side as he held it with only one hand.

“I…” Zhi Jinqin opened her mouth but she could not emit any noise. Then, with a pop, she melted and exploded out of the blue, turning into a liquid bursting out in all directions.

Then, there was a sudden change below the two of them as half of the White Crab Island exploded up into the sky. The few hundred meters wide mountain was shot up into the sky towards Garen.

Kaboom!

The grey-white mountain rolled as it charged towards Garen. As the explosion was too powerful causing the mountain which had an incredibly huge surface area to have an incredibly high velocity, Garen had no choice but to take the collision head-on as he did not expect this unforeseen circumstance.

Shing!!

A silver line of the saber was released, splitting the mountain in half from the center.

Garen remained levitating in the middle of the air. He casually waved the saber in his hand, cutting the huge mountain in half with ease. This cleared a passage big enough for him to pass through it.

Garen’s physical abilities had reached an extremely powerful level ever since he had absorbed Slayer to further enhance his Soul Ring. The immensely powerful Soul Ring was constantly supplying energy towards his physical body. If not for the restriction of this universe, the current Garen would be in his strongest state compared to his past. The Garen in the Mech World was no match compared to his current strength. Although there was a huge difference in strength due to the universe’s loose laws in the Mech World, Garen’s physical abilities were no match compared to his current strength which was induced from the Soul Ring.

“Hehehe… This is amazing. I’ve got to give credit to a powerhouse who can kill even the Slayer!”

Zhi Jinqin, who was clustering back into existence revealed a twisted smile.

“But, so what!?”

A black tumor appeared on her arms and was then shot towards Garen as it detached from her body.

Pew.

The tumor exploded at least ten meters in front from Garen. It was cut in half even though the reflection of Garen’s saber could not be seen.

Boom!!

What came next was an intense radioactive light.

The black and white halo spread everywhere. As Garen was unable to surpass the speed of light, he was engulfed in it since he was caught off guard.

The world around him turned black and white regardless if it was the sea water or the sunlight.

“Radiation, huh?” Garen held the saber with both of his hands as he straightened his posture. He could feel that the radiation was eroding his skin.

He then jolted his saber.

Buzz!!!

The reflection of the sabers gleamed up around Garen instantaneously after giving off the low buzzing noise before the saber in his hand vanished.

The intense radioactive light was directly reflected away.

Boom!

The black and white radioactive ball collapsed from within. Garen rushed out like a canon and struck Zhi Jinqin who had just morphed back into existence.

Kaboom! Zhi Jinqin was mercilessly hit down to the sea as the impact created a thunder-like roar. The white water splashed up in the sky and was cut in half by a single strike from Garen.

He had no intention of letting his enemy live as he immediately plunged downward.

He raised his saber over his head and struck down once more.

The deep blue sea was separated in half similar to a blue transparent fruit being cut in half with that single strike. The sea cracked open, revealing Zhi Jinqin who was lying on the bed of the seafloor.

She was wounded all over. All of her tentacles and limbs were broken and the left side of her head had even vanished. However, she still looked up and stared at Garen who was in the sky.

“You can’t kill me! Hahaha…!!” Zhi Jinqin laughed maniacally.

Garen frowned as he rushed down and performed a quartered dismemberment¹ with a few slices with his saber.

Although Zhi Jinqin’s limbs and head were completely dismembered from her body, half of her head was still laughing like a lunatic.

“It’s useless. Father spent decades to try and kill me with a variety of methods but to no avail. Do you really think you can kill me with your technique?”

Her words were no longer intelligible but she was still laughing maniacally.

“Something’s wrong.” Garen tried to sense the fluctuation of Zhi Jinqin’s Soul Energy. Nothing. She was not emitting any Soul Energy at all.

The Energy Machine Imprint analyzed.

He did not believe that nothing could not be killed in any world, as immortality was nothing but a subjective term.

Zhi Jinqin took the opportunity to attack when he let his guard down. She rose up into the sky as her entire body exploded, turning into yellow-green viscous liquid as it converged together in a sphere.

The viscous spherical liquid shrunk before rapidly expanded like a balloon. It became larger and voluminous as if someone was inflating it from the inside. Its diameter quickly went from ten meters to tens of meters, a hundred meters and finally a few hundred meters!!!

The viscous liquid sphere had turned into a huge grey brown balloon within a short amount of time.

A huge fairytale face similar to of McDonald’s appeared on the surface of the sphere, it opened its mouth as it tried to swallow Garen up.

Standing on the bed of the seafloor, Garen raised his head up looking at the weird looking balloon monster coming after him.

“What a pointless struggle.”

His face was calm as he slashed with his saber with only one of his hands.

Pew!

The trace of the saber which spanned a few hundred meters was shot out, slicing through the huge face from the front to the back as if the huge face was nothing but liquid and gas.

It was then Garen set his sight on the transparent Ring of Energy Field behind the huge balloon.

“That is…” He squinted.